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Verdicts & Settlements
  • $15.0 million involving man who was left a ventilator dependant quadriplegic as result of broken neck during intubation

  • $12.5 million involving a suicide

  • $10.75 million settlement with physicians and hospital in case involving infant who suffered permanent brain injuries at birth

  • $8.1 million wrongful death verdict in case involving an outpatient suicide, highest verdict in the United States in a suicide case

  • $7.1 million verdict represented the first medical malpractice verdict ever in Guilford County, highest medical malpractice verdict in North Carolina at the time, the second highest punitive damages verdict in the state

  • $7 million awarded by jury in medmal verdict

  • $4.5 million involving a child who suffered significant brain injury as result of medical treatment received for heart condition

  • $3.5 million verdict involving infant who suffered permanent brain injuries

  • $3.25 million for the wrongful death of husband and father of 4 children who died due to a failure to see and appreciate a brain aneurysm by a radiologist performing an MRA (Magnetic Resonance Angiogram)

  • Confidential settlement in 2002: $2.3 million for the wrongful death of a 38 year-old, wife and mother of 2 children who died following a routine thyroidectomy

  • Cumberland County: $1.5 million settlement in a car accident involving a 31 year-old wife and mother of 2 children which resulted in a closed-head injury and permanent brain damage

  • Macon County: $800,000 wrongful death verdict in case involving throat cancer

  • SETTLEMENT IN SUIT ALLEGING FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE BREAST CANCER

    Verdicts, Settlements & Tactics

    January 1999

    Medical Liability

    *18 SETTLEMENT IN SUIT ALLEGING FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE BREAST CANCER

    Copyright © 1999 West Group

    A family physician failed to arrange for close follow-up and/or biopsy of a 51-year-old female's axillary mass, postponing the diagnosis of breast cancer for more than a year.
    Injury: Metastatic bone disease, shortened life expectancy and emotional distress
    Result: $950,000 settlement.
    Plaintiff's Expert Witnesses: Melanie Mintzer, M.D., family medicine, Chapel Hill, N.C.; Robert L. Smith, M.D., family medicine, Fallston MD; Jeffrey S. Weber, M.D., Ph.D., oncology, Irvine, Calif., Barry L. Singer, M.D., oncology, Norristown PA
    Plaintiff's Attorneys: Wade E. Byrd, Fayetteville, N.C.
    Anonymous v. Anonymous, (N.C. Sept. 8, 1998)
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